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66 GERMANY. [Ratlsbon.
chaplainries, and llkewife extends over the Bavarian diftrids of Holnberg
in the upper palatinate, as alfo over the iRowö«-catholic parilhes in the principaHty
of Sulzbachy the landgravate of Leitchtenoerg, and the county of
Slcrnjlein.
§. 5. Its blfhop, who is a Prince, has his confiftory, his council and
treafury, exclufive of other country officers.
§. 6. In the Imperial city of Rathbon the Eledor indeed holds the bifhop's
court, but without jurifdiftion. To its temporal dependances belongs
I. The free Imperial lordlhip of Donaußauf, commonly called Domflauft
which lies about two hour's diftance below Ratißon on the river Danube ;
being four hour's in length, and as much in breadth. This lordfhip comprehends
under it
Donaußauf, a market-town, feated on the Danube, near which ftands the
mountain-caftle of the fame name, which was demolifhed in 1634. The
ferry here belongs to the Elector of Bavaria.
The caftles o'[ Schonberg and Adelmanßein: together with
The hofmarkte and villages oi Scbwablweißz, Degerheim, Sulzbach, Demlingeuy
Siegenßein, Sieffenbach, Lichtenwald, Menzenbach, and Irlbach.
Near the two laft places the Bohemians were defeated in 1 504.
II. The free Imperial Lordfliip of Werth, or Worth, which, together
with thofe before-mentioned, lies on the Danube, being about two hours
in length and one in breadth. This lordfhip contains in it
Werth, or Worth, a market-town having a caftle : together with
The villages of Diejfenthal, Kirfihholz, Kruckenberg, and Freiikhofen.
III. The free Imperial lordfliip oi Hchenburg, which lies in the Nordgau
on the river Lautrach, being fituated betwixt the Bavarian diftridt of Rieden
in the upper palatinate and that of Burg-Leger/eld which belongs to
Neuburg. The ancient marggravate of Hohenburg was confiderably larger
than this lordfliip, which confifts only of the caflle of Hohenburg, and a
few vaflals and fubjedls.
Obf. I. To the bifliopric alfo belongs
Hohenburg, a caftle, feated on the river Inn, and lying in Upper-Bavaria
in the rent-amt of Munich and the pfleg-amt of Waßerburg, over which it
is poflefTed of the lower or Vogtey jurifdidlion.
Pachlarn, (otherwife called Pechlarn, or Pochlarn) a fmall town and
lordfhip lying in Lower-Aufiria. See Vol. iv. p. 168.
At Eberfpeunt, Euting, and Wildcnberg, all fituated in Lower-Bavaria^
and likewife in the rent-amt oi Landßmt and the pfleg- amts of Vilßiburg,
Aerdi7ig, and Rottenburg, is a pfiegverwalter, or procurator.
2. The cathedral is polTeffed of certain diftrids in Irl, as alfo on the
Danube, and at Nabburg, Aufhaußn^ Pfaffenberg, SchwandorJ, Raittenbuch,
and Chamb.
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